picspam: hope you have nothing against the colour red (fringe)
WARNING: this is no-where near actual meta because I'm just asking a lot of confused questions and supplying pictures. I have no idea what the writers/art directors/set designers are up to over at FRINGE and this is sorta me just wanting to group a bunch of observations together. (lol, can you spot my Olivia bias?)
For more complete colour picspams of FRINGE, see zombie_boogie's post HERE and marshmallow's posts HERE.
I think the tri-coloured theory spawned during Over There Part 1& 2 when we were shown different credit openings and the intrepid trio of Lincoln, Charlie and Alt!Livia stood in front of giant swatches of primary colours. Keen-eyed fans went back to catalogue all the other instances of Red Yellow and Blue.
It led to the question: IS THERE A THIRD (YELLOW) VERSE? Was there once only one verse (first people) that the rest broke out of like a prism refracting light? (If so, was there more importance behind those white lights Olivia had to turn off?)
I'd hesitate before stating something as simple as "red represents the other/evil" or something. (Mostly because red seems to be Astrid's favourite colour judging by her wardrobe and I love her so she can't be evil.) Plus, we've seen plenty of red on our side. It may be an agent of change as Olivia was given a red IV in Jacksonville when trying to jump start her abilities, but the most common use of red is as the after effects of a Fringe effect ie. blood, guts, lone balloons.
It's easy to associate blue with our universe, but it's probably more accurate to associate it with stress or emotional turmoil. It's the waiting/investigative period between/during cases before anything concrete is known. People are more vulnerable in blue (hospital gowns ect) so it's a prime time for previously held notions to be flipped.
If red is the colour after a successful experiment/Fringe event, then yellow is the lead up. It's the scientific preparation, the 'ready, get set' part of the equation. Yellow isn't exactly a neutral zone, rather, it is where Olivia often offers herself up as sacrifice to save others. (It's interesting to note that Cortexiphan is yellow, as is the IV they gave the kid in Inner Child. Our Olivia dislikes the colour because it reminds her of 'medicine' but the other Olivia helped her mother paint her room yellow to be more 'cheery') Yellow is also the colour of the 'halo' around things from the other side.
BUT THEN! The show deviated from it's primary colour palette! In Amber 31422, Olivia crossed over to see blue, yellow and PURPLE balloons? WHAT IS THIS? Is there some significance behind it? Yet ANOTHER universe? But you have to remember, THAT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME WE'VE SEEN A CHANGE UP TO THE BALLOONS. In Over There Part 1 the team passes by Red, Yellow and PINK balloons. I have no idea what's going on here but wanted to point it out so someone smarter than me could explain it all and make my head stop hurting.
Before we leave talking about colour, we HAVE to talk about the Green, Green, Green, Red of ZFT/The Observers. This seems to have dropped off since S1. Will it come back? Is green the colour of people who can easily crossover/exist between places? Is ZFT simply being dropped until we've dealt with these alternate universes? (Although I got the sense that their job was to prepare our side for the war, so....)
HEY, REMEMBER SAMUEL "I HOPE YOU HAVE NOTHING AGAINST THE COLOUR RED" WIESS (aka SEAMUS WILES)? Obviously it was for a task where Olivia needed to talk to people with a red article of clothing, but was it also a warning? Did he know then that she'd be trapped in that other universe for so long?
But what I really want to talk about is Olivia LOSING HER PATIENCE. Look, she's a pretty calm and collected lady. She has oodles of patience for Walter and I can think of about three times when she got legit mad (all due to a slow boil finally overflowing) BUT SHE NEVER POINTED A GUN AT ANY OF THEM. She uses her words because as an FBI agent, she believes in the power of the law. She frog-marches a corrupt CEO out in handcuffs instead of shooting him. She yells at Walter for him to remember in the ice cream shop while Peter's in the bathroom but leaves before doing anything physical. She merely WHISPERS something to Mitchell Loeb to get him to confess. Olivia uses her brain and her words to solve her problems, even with Charlie, a gun was a last option in self-defence.
Not so with Sam Weiss. She's sick and tired of his bullshit and so she stalks over to tell him. Normal so far. THEN SHE PULLS A GUN ON HIM. WAY OUT OF CHARACTER! Who is this man that he can get our normally self-contained agent to consider threat with a deadly weapon is the smart choice here? How is he able to get under her skin so easily? Is this why she is not to trust him? Because he bypasses her logic and causes her to just REACT? Or is it something more sinister?
SO MANY QUESTIONS! Got any answers/theories? I'd love to hear them in the comments!
For more complete colour picspams of FRINGE, see zombie_boogie's post HERE and marshmallow's posts HERE.
I think the tri-coloured theory spawned during Over There Part 1& 2 when we were shown different credit openings and the intrepid trio of Lincoln, Charlie and Alt!Livia stood in front of giant swatches of primary colours. Keen-eyed fans went back to catalogue all the other instances of Red Yellow and Blue.
It led to the question: IS THERE A THIRD (YELLOW) VERSE? Was there once only one verse (first people) that the rest broke out of like a prism refracting light? (If so, was there more importance behind those white lights Olivia had to turn off?)
I'd hesitate before stating something as simple as "red represents the other/evil" or something. (Mostly because red seems to be Astrid's favourite colour judging by her wardrobe and I love her so she can't be evil.) Plus, we've seen plenty of red on our side. It may be an agent of change as Olivia was given a red IV in Jacksonville when trying to jump start her abilities, but the most common use of red is as the after effects of a Fringe effect ie. blood, guts, lone balloons.
It's easy to associate blue with our universe, but it's probably more accurate to associate it with stress or emotional turmoil. It's the waiting/investigative period between/during cases before anything concrete is known. People are more vulnerable in blue (hospital gowns ect) so it's a prime time for previously held notions to be flipped.
If red is the colour after a successful experiment/Fringe event, then yellow is the lead up. It's the scientific preparation, the 'ready, get set' part of the equation. Yellow isn't exactly a neutral zone, rather, it is where Olivia often offers herself up as sacrifice to save others. (It's interesting to note that Cortexiphan is yellow, as is the IV they gave the kid in Inner Child. Our Olivia dislikes the colour because it reminds her of 'medicine' but the other Olivia helped her mother paint her room yellow to be more 'cheery') Yellow is also the colour of the 'halo' around things from the other side.
BUT THEN! The show deviated from it's primary colour palette! In Amber 31422, Olivia crossed over to see blue, yellow and PURPLE balloons? WHAT IS THIS? Is there some significance behind it? Yet ANOTHER universe? But you have to remember, THAT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME WE'VE SEEN A CHANGE UP TO THE BALLOONS. In Over There Part 1 the team passes by Red, Yellow and PINK balloons. I have no idea what's going on here but wanted to point it out so someone smarter than me could explain it all and make my head stop hurting.
Before we leave talking about colour, we HAVE to talk about the Green, Green, Green, Red of ZFT/The Observers. This seems to have dropped off since S1. Will it come back? Is green the colour of people who can easily crossover/exist between places? Is ZFT simply being dropped until we've dealt with these alternate universes? (Although I got the sense that their job was to prepare our side for the war, so....)
HEY, REMEMBER SAMUEL "I HOPE YOU HAVE NOTHING AGAINST THE COLOUR RED" WIESS (aka SEAMUS WILES)? Obviously it was for a task where Olivia needed to talk to people with a red article of clothing, but was it also a warning? Did he know then that she'd be trapped in that other universe for so long?
But what I really want to talk about is Olivia LOSING HER PATIENCE. Look, she's a pretty calm and collected lady. She has oodles of patience for Walter and I can think of about three times when she got legit mad (all due to a slow boil finally overflowing) BUT SHE NEVER POINTED A GUN AT ANY OF THEM. She uses her words because as an FBI agent, she believes in the power of the law. She frog-marches a corrupt CEO out in handcuffs instead of shooting him. She yells at Walter for him to remember in the ice cream shop while Peter's in the bathroom but leaves before doing anything physical. She merely WHISPERS something to Mitchell Loeb to get him to confess. Olivia uses her brain and her words to solve her problems, even with Charlie, a gun was a last option in self-defence.
Not so with Sam Weiss. She's sick and tired of his bullshit and so she stalks over to tell him. Normal so far. THEN SHE PULLS A GUN ON HIM. WAY OUT OF CHARACTER! Who is this man that he can get our normally self-contained agent to consider threat with a deadly weapon is the smart choice here? How is he able to get under her skin so easily? Is this why she is not to trust him? Because he bypasses her logic and causes her to just REACT? Or is it something more sinister?
SO MANY QUESTIONS! Got any answers/theories? I'd love to hear them in the comments!